B.
Job's cursing of the day of his birth
3:1-26
Job 3
:1
3:1
After this Job opened his mouth and
1acursed the day of his
birth.
Job 3
:2
3:2
And Job responded and said,
Job 3
:3
3:3
Let the day on which I was born perish,
And the night which said, A man has been conceived.
Job 3
:4
3:4
Let that day be darkness;
Let God not seek it from above,
Nor let light shine upon it.
Job 3
:5
3:5
Let darkness and the shadow of death reclaim it;
Let a cloud dwell upon it;
Let the things that blacken the day terrify it.
Job 3
:6
3:6
As for that night, let deep darkness take hold of it;
Let it not rejoice among the days of the year;
Let it not come up in the number of the months.
Job 3
:7
3:7
Behold, let that night be barren;
Let no joyous shout come in it.
Job 3
:8
3:8
Let those curse it who curse the day,
Who are ready to rouse leviathan.
Job 3
:9
3:9
Let its predawn stars be dark;
Let it wait for light and there be none,
And do not let it see the eyelids of the dawn.
Job 3
:10
3:10
For it did not shut up the doors of the
awomb that bore me,
Nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.
Job 3
:11
3:11
Why did I not
1die at birth,
Come forth from the womb and expire?
Job 3
:12
3:12
Why did the knees receive me?
And why the breasts, that I should suck?
Job 3
:13
3:13
For now I would have lain down and been undisturbed;
I would have slept; then I would have been at rest
Job 3
:14
3:14
With kings and counselors of the earth,
Who rebuilt ruins for themselves;
Job 3
:15
3:15
Or with princes who had gold,
Who filled their houses with silver.
Job 3
:16
3:16
Or like a miscarriage that has been concealed, I would not have been,
Like infants that do not see the light.
Job 3
:17
3:17
There the wicked cease from
their troubling,
And there the weary rest.
Job 3
:18
3:18
Captives are altogether at ease;
They do not hear the voice of the taskmaster.
Job 3
:19
3:19
The small and the great are there,
And the servant is free from his master.
Job 3
:20
3:20
Why does He give light to him who suffers
And life to the bitter in soul,
Job 3
:21
3:21
Who wait for
adeath, but it is not there;
And dig for it more than for hidden treasures;
Job 3
:22
3:22
Who rejoice to the point of exultation
And are glad when they have found the grave;
Job 3
:23
3:23
To the man whose way is hidden
And whom God has
ahedged in?
Job 3
:24
3:24
For my sighing comes as my food,
And my groaning pours out like water.
Job 3
:25
3:25
For I dread something, and it comes upon me;
And what I fear comes to me.
Job 3
:26
3:26
I have no ease and I have no quiet
And I have no rest, but trouble comes.
